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Jan. 23, 1923. 1,443,284

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FILED APR. 22, 1922;

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Applicationfiled April 22, 1922. Serial No. 556,006.

To all whom it may 0012 001% 1 7 Be it known that 1, Burns 1i. SILVER- THORN, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Marion, in the county of .hlarion and State of Ohio, have invented a new and Improved Toy, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

This invention relates to improvements in toys, an object of the invention being to provide a novel form of toy for use with an ordinary kite.

To be more specific, an object of the invention is to provide a toy parachute and a traveller adapted tobe used in connection with an ordinary kite string for sending up and releasing the parachute. Y

A further object of the invention is to provide a toy which will be interesting and amusing, which will be attractive in appearance, efiicient in operation, simple in construction and capable of being manufactured with economy.

With these and other objects in view the invention consists in certain novel features of construction, and combinations and arrangements of parts, as will be more fully hereinafter described and pointed out .in the claims.

In the accompanying drawings Figure 1 is a perspective view illustrating the manner of. use of my improved toy.

Figure 2 is an enlarged longitudinal sectional view through the traveller showing the same in operative position.

Figure 3 is a transverse sectional view on the line 33 of Figure 2.

Referring in detail to the drawings, I have used the reference numeral 1 to designate a kite and the numeral 2 to indicate a kite string. The kite itself may be of any character or of any design. since my improved toy is capable of use with any type of kite.

Arranged on the kite string adjacent the kite is a bumper plate This bumper plate is adapted to be engaged by a traveller 4 which is in the form of an elongated hollow rectangular block. Screw eyes 5 attached to the block are slidable' on the kite line or wire 2. y r

A rod 6 has limited longitudinal sliding movement within the hollow block, the movcment of the rod being limited by a pin 7 extending transversely across the hollow center of the block and movable in a slot 8 in the rod 6.

engage and hold the ring 11.

.Atoy parachute 9 carries a dependiimstring 10, which is weighted at its lowerend by a metallic ring 11. This ring is adapted to be-passed through an opening 12 in the wall of the travelling block and held detachably by the rod 6,2111 angular slot 13 being provided in the rod for this purpose. It will be apparent by referring to Figure 2 of the drawings, that the sliding of the. rod will bring the mouth of the slot 13 into registration with the opening 12 and will release the ring 11 which holds the parachute connected to the traveller. This sliding movement. of the rod is, of course, effected by the engagement of the rod with the'bumper 3.

The operation of the device is as follows: After the kite 1 is in the air, the traveller i is introduced over the end of the kite string and the parachute 9 is attached to the traveller by sliding the rod 6 to the position indicated in Figure 2, where the slot 18 will The wind which maintains the kite l aloft, will open and lift the parachute 9, carrying the traveller 4% up the kite line until the rod 6 engages with the bumper 3. As the rod engages with the bumper, the parachute will be released, as indicated in dotted lines in Figure 1, and the traveller 4 will be gravitationally returned to the ground end of the kite line. I

I propose to make the parachute of some cheap material which. will make their recovery unnecessary. The same traveller may be used many times.

I have illustrated the preferred elnbodiment of the invention, but numerous slight changes and alterations might be made in the general form and arrangement of the parts described without departing from the invention. and hence T do not wish to limit myself to the precise details, set forth, but consider myself at liberty to make such changes and alterations as fairly fall within the spirit and scope of the appended claims.

I claim:

1. Thecombination with a kite and a kite stringprovided with. a bumper plate. of a hollow block provided with an opening in one side and with eyes through which the kite string passes, a slidable rod in the block, said rod having one end projecting beyond the block and provided with an angular slot, means for limiting the sliding movement of the rod, and a parachute having a string provided at. its end with a ring, said ring being adapted tov enter the opening of the block and engage the angular slot of: the said rod.

2. The combination with a kite and a kite string provided with. a bumper member, of a hollow block provided with means for slidably mounting it on the kite string and with an opening in one side a rod having limited sliding movement in the block, said rod having one end projecting beyond the block and provided With an angular slot, and a parachute carrying a ring adapted to enter the opening of the block and engage the angular slot of the said rod.

3. The combination With a kite and a kite string provided With a stop, of a hollow RUFUS PAUL SILVERTHORN. 

